Registration closes Friday! (and it’s only $50!)

The International Statistical Ecology Conference is a biennial meeting of researchers at the interface between ecology and statistics.  At vISEC2020 we have planned an exciting list of keynote speakers that bridge these two disciplines, as well as training opportunities for attendees, a forum for interdisciplinary collaboration, and a healthy dose of fun - all online!

A draft conference program has been released – talks span five days (22-26^th June) and include plenary talks by Christl Donnelly (Imperial College / Oxford) of the Imperial College COVID-19 Response Team, David Borchers (St Andrews), Dianne Cook (Monash), Kiona Ogle (Northern Arizona), Mark Bravington (CSIRO) and an invited session on Reproducible Science.  The first day of the conference (22nd June) is a Skills Showcase, with hands-on tutorials run in parallel on topics as diverse as high-dimensional data visualisation, hidden Markov models, deep learning and passive acoustics.  The remaining four days blend plenary talks, contributed and speed talks, poster sessions, virtual round-table discussions, and social mixers.

Home base for the conference will be a Slack workspace, where registered participants can mingle, watch live-streamed talks (and recordings of talks you missed, or want to watch again!), browse poster presentations, interact with presenters and other attendees via text or video chat, plan papers for our Special Issue proposal, check our Twitter stream, or compete at trivia night!  There will be two conference sessions each day, no more than three hours in length, set at opposite ends of the Sydney day to better align with timezones around the world (8-11am & 9pm-12am GMT).

Registration for the conference is just $50AUD, giving you access to the Slack workspace where talks and discussions are stored for the duration of the conference and for two weeks following the conference close. 

If you are experiencing financial hardship, conference registration fees can be waived, by selecting the appropriate item during registration.  Please contact us if unsure whether this applies to you.

For further details, see the vISEC2020 website.

Questions?  Send us an email at isec2020@unsw.edu.au

See you in a couple of weeks,

the vISEC2020 Local Organising Committee.

http://www.isec2020.org/